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Quebec: Muslim politician who claimed Notre Dame fire was wrath of Allah apologizes and plays the victim

Apr 19, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

Eve Torres, who claimed that the Notre Dame fire was Allah’s wrath over France’s burqa ban, is busy now making a travesty of her apology by claiming victim status: “Many hateful messages targeted the former QS candidate after her comment. ‘It did not stop. People had never seen so much backlash,’ she indicated, adding that for many years she has received hateful messages and ‘real threats.’”

Can she produce any of these threats? Has she ever gone to police?

“I acknowledged my mistake. Getting criticism, people being offended or angered, people expressing themselves, people criticizing, it’s understandable. Nobody in Quebec should fear for her safety or her life because she expresses an opinion, a different point of view.”

What she is trying to do here is stop all criticism of her remarks about Notre Dame by claiming that she is the real victim. It’s the same strategy the Left is using to defend Ilhan Omar: they’re claiming, without any foundation, that criticism of Omar is incitement to violence against her, and hence all such criticism must be silenced.

“Notre-Dame de Paris: Eve Torres apologizes for her comments,” translated from “Notre-Dame de Paris: Eve Torres s’excuse pour ses commentaires,” by Béatrice Roy-Brunet, Le Journal de Montréal, April 18, 2019:

The former Québec solidaire candidate Eve Torres has formally apologized for her “joke” in poor taste after the fire at the Notre-Dame cathedral at the beginning of the week.

“I will not talk about my statement that has really hurt many people but once more I offer them my sincere apologies,” Ms. Torres said during a press conference under police protection.

Ms. Torres, a Muslim, made a comment linking the fire at Notre-Dame in Paris to Bill 21 that was introduced by the Legault government regarding religious symbols worn by public sector employees. “[…] When you prevent others from wearing religious symbols, you anger our ‘Imaginary Friend,’ and you can see the result,” she wrote on social networks.

She added that if she were [Quebec Premier] François Legault, she “would have firefighters sleep in the basilica on Notre-Dame Street [in Montreal].”

“Apparently, somebody started retweeting this on more radical social networks and after that everybody had a field day,” she said.

Later, Ms. Torres withdrew her comment and pointed out that it was a joke. “It was too late but it was the first thing to do.”

[Québec solidaire leader] Manon Massé also distanced herself from the comment published by her party’s candidate in Mont-Royal-Outremont in the last [provincial] election.

Eve Torres indicated that she understands “the extent of her responsibility.” “From this experience, I will remember how important the use of words is in the public space. We all have a responsibility to maintain social cohesion, particularly those of us who are public personalities.”

Hateful messages

Many hateful messages targeted the former QS candidate after her comment. “It did not stop. People had never seen so much backlash,” she indicated, adding that for many years she has received hateful messages and “real threats.”

“I acknowledged my mistake. Getting criticism, people being offended or angered, people expressing themselves, people criticizing, it’s understandable,” she explained.

“Nobody in Quebec should fear for her safety or her life because she expresses an opinion, a different point of view.”

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  1. Troy Laarman says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 9:12 am

    Years ago I had thought about escaping from the US to Canada if things ever went bad here…guess that’s pretty much off the table.

    • Jayme says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 10:01 am

      Things are so much worse in Canada then the States.

      • Johane says

        Apr 19, 2019 at 10:14 am

        Right now I wish I lived in the States. We have a Buffon in office. A feminist…. And look at the way he is treating women! Not to mention not working for the people of Canada. At the moment, I can’t say that I’m proud to be Canadian, and French at that.

        • Jayme says

          Apr 19, 2019 at 10:28 am

          I am in Ottawa and right now we have a very left leaning council that is looking at a women first policy what that means if your male your screwed.

        • mortimer says

          Apr 19, 2019 at 10:44 am

          Jihadi Justin will soon go down with the ship. The Lib-Jihadist Party has made to many obvious mistakes and they have offended their erstwhile friends. The fading looks of Jihadi Justin, the runway model will not work on women anymore. His aging features are starting to make him look like any other double-dealing sleazy Quebec politician.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 19, 2019 at 6:00 pm

          Agreed, WASP. And remember, Canada had a quite sane PM before this–during the Obama years, I envied our northern neighbors.

        • Charles Lutz says

          Apr 20, 2019 at 5:55 pm

          Johane: Trudeau is not much of a buffoon. Look how successfully he used the Lavalin scandal as a smoke screen to hide the real damage his regime is doing to the people: the cooperation of Big Government with Big Business in fleecing the working people; in this case both in Libya and in Canada.

        • Johane says

          Apr 20, 2019 at 8:01 pm

          To Charles,

          I guess when you look at it from that angle. Mind you he’s got great “mentors” (Clinton, Soros etc). I seem to recall there is a link between Lavalin and Lybia.

  2. James Cameron says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 9:15 am

    People who are truly sorry, don’t play the victim.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 10:32 am

      An Islamic supremacist is never defeated … they make a strategic retreat and return to fight another day.

      • Mike says

        Apr 20, 2019 at 12:24 am

        The pure truth, and a great way to express it.

    • Westman says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 11:38 am

      How was her, “wrath of Allah” statement a joke and an opinion at the same time? She claims to be a simultaneous jester and victim for having an opinion. Islam certainly robs its slaves of logic while educating them to use outlandish taqiyya.

  3. WPM says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 9:17 am

    Veiled threats of burning down churches in Canada gets Canada Christians mad who would have thunk it. The regressive” soft bigotry” of the left that Moslems or “persons of color” cannot think clear enough should get a pass if they threaten others with violence in public. If their thinking is not that clear and they let their emotion get beyond logical thinking how can people vote for them into office not matter of their skin color or religion? Then they cry that their feeling are hurt because non-Moslems strongly disagree to their ideas of threats to burn down Christian house of worship.

    • Jayme says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 9:29 am

      Its the time of it people had a huge issue with the most holy week of the year.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 6:12 pm

      It’s not just Christians who were angered by this.

  4. WPM says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 9:22 am

    Moslems always playing the victim , Moslems feelings are more important then non-believers safety from Jihad .

    • Mark Swan says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 9:53 am

      How disingenuous these statements are, when ever a Muslim is called on inappropriate
      behavior, the deflection is immediate, “look what They caused Me to do’.

      The ambiguous approach, always applied, in such an insincere manner, is very Muslim.

    • Wellington says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 12:11 pm

      Yes indeed, WPM. Muslims are always the victim, even whey they issue a non-apology apology. Guess it goes along with being “the best of peoples.” {Sura 3:110} Besides, why should a Muslim ever truly apologize to, a la Sura 98:6, “the vilest of creatures?”

      • Victoria says

        Apr 19, 2019 at 2:23 pm

        Canada has a much smaller population than America. easier for the enemy to control. However, I believe if things reached a point where Muslim dominance became evident to either country they would join together to defeat the Muslim enemy. I don’t believe real Americans,(conservative) Americans would stand by and let Canada be overtaken. It is difficult when leaders of both countries have become tools of the enemy.

        • Jayme says

          Apr 19, 2019 at 5:47 pm

          All muslims need to do is take over the GTA and Ottawa and its game over it would cripple the country.

  5. Jayme says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 9:33 am

    There was a muslim reporter in Toronto a few weeks ago said she was getting all types of threats because she wears a hijab but some people question if she really got any threats.

    • WPM says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 10:00 am

      News report:
      From a “Muslim reporter” who invents her own reality then gets called on her BS because of lack of evidence, important news flash from her now she reports her “feelings hurt” leftist in MSM media rally behind this “victim” of facts, lack of evidence and logic.

      • Jayme says

        Apr 19, 2019 at 10:05 am

        One reporter got into some hot water for saying all Christians are white.

        • WPM says

          Apr 19, 2019 at 10:17 am

          Then a college hired her as a professor on colonial oppression?

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 19, 2019 at 6:15 pm

          Even for a Muslim, this is a ludicrous statement–but more evidence of hatred of both Christians and white people.

      • Victoria says

        Apr 19, 2019 at 2:25 pm

        Muslims always play the victim and bleeding heart liberals fall for it every time.

  6. Emilie Green says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 9:34 am

    “The former Québec solidaire candidate [Muslim] Eve Torres has formally apologized for her ‘joke’ in poor taste after the fire at the Notre-Dame cathedral”

    A joke?

    Islam, providing humor to no one for 1400 years.

    • Joe says

      Apr 20, 2019 at 5:43 am

      Yeah, it is some “joke”, to advocate more arson to a group who is recovering from a tragic fire.

  7. m. says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 9:39 am

    typical muslim behavior (tmb)

  8. Tony46 says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 9:49 am

    The wrath of who??
    Tell me,
    What are the floods,droughts poverty, slavery and misery all across Moslem nations?
    Floods last week and locusts on Easter week…
    A blessing maybe?
    A fire in Paris?….that has been extinguished already.

  9. Renate says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 9:54 am

    I find this more believable:

    • Renate says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 9:58 am

      Well! Since the video wouldn’t post, see if you can get it with the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56tPjl9NsAI&list=PLgS31mpImMjHsLWGllQI-SaBakqgChD18&index=30&t=18s

      I think Bill Whittle sums it up pretty well.

  10. Vincent Grove says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 9:55 am

    Typical Moslem trying to backtrack her comments but knowing the comments got out there anyway for her people to see. We know what side she is on but here in Libtard Canada we can say nothing…!

  11. WPM says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 10:14 am

    To Renate
    Thanks for the link ,but I do not think this fire will wake the French up .

    • Renate says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 12:20 pm

      I think it can’t be expressed to the world any better than Bill Whittle did in that video. He has said it all in a nutshell. Only the globalists and the Muslims would not want to heed the message.

  12. Tom says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 10:36 am

    When have we ever known a muslim to joke about something they perceive to have been done by Allah? It was obvious that is what she meant by “Imaginary Friend”.

    Trying to suggest that her less than covert threat in saying “would have firefighters sleep in the basilica on Notre Dame street” was a joke is beyond belief. It was a message sent out to her fellow haters and those in political power.

    This hate filled woman should be drummed out of politics and never allowed to darken our public services or political institutions ever again.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 10:40 am

      The counterpoint to her ‘jest’ is that ‘Allah’ expects Muslims to do the work of punishing the dirty kafirs.

      Apparently, Allah is unable to punish anyone without the help of jihadists and their blades and matches.

      She was definitely calling for a FIRE JIHAD. Many young would-be jihadists may be inspired to go to the corner store and buy a book of matches.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 19, 2019 at 6:18 pm

        Grimly true.

  13. Jaladhi says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 10:44 am

    Muslims have this phony victimhood racquet going for them supported by our own stupid media and politicians. Any time they are caught in their own lies they fall back to “we are victims”. Alas our politicians still don’t get it!!

  14. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 10:48 am

    She joked about a tragic fire in one of the most prominent human heritage sites filled with art treasures.

    I knew a Muslim who made jokes about 9-11.

    • Michael Garant says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 1:14 pm

      It only ”became a joke” ,once she was caught, ……between her an a french friend, most probably another islamist. Only an islamist could find it funny. She threatens violence, but doesn’t apologize for that, only the sick joke part.

      Then she says: “Nobody in Quebec should fear for her safety or her life because she expresses an opinion, a different point of view.”

      Funny, she didn’t think that way (she is against proposed law 21, which will prohibit government people in authority to wear religious garb on duty) when she posted her threat….but then again, always the victim.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 7:59 pm

      A lot of Muslims have “joked” about 9/11.

  15. WPM says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 11:07 am

    They celebrate the misery of non-Moslems ,they have no shame of the evil ,they embrace evil as a virtue ,if you point this out they fall back they are the victims of their own words and deeds in the name of evil.

  16. WPM says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 11:13 am

    You the non-Believer made them say those words, you the non-believer made them murder and rape there way across the world. They do all these things in the name of allah ,because allah is a weak ass god who needs little allah slaves to do his dirty work here on earth.

  17. CogitoErgoSum says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 11:22 am

    She should have the right to free speech. If she thinks the burning of churches is funny she should be allowed to make a joke about it. She just needs to keep in mind that some people may not find her jokes funny and that other people can make jokes as well, some of which she may take as threats just as some people took her joke as a threat.

    I would not want any harm to come to her and I hope she remains safe. I do feel sorry for her because she seems like a very confused person to me. She was once a Christian but she switched to being a Muslim and she refers to God as her “imaginary friend.” In a previous post I mentioned Elwood P. Dowd in the movie “Harvey.” He was a man who never met a person he didn’t like ,,, even an “imaginary” 6″3″ tall rabbit leaning against a lamp post. What a great world it would be if everyone were like him.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 8:06 pm

      Of course she has the right to free speech. And other have the right to express how disgusted they are by her vicious speech.

  18. James Lincoln says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 11:26 am

    Years back, I became friends with a U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder pilot who had spent a lot of time in the Middle East.

    Before I went on my own Middle East deployment, he warned me about Islam and Muslims, i.e., the essentials of the common threads that run throughout Jihad Watch. The talk occurred over two or three beers in the offices club.

    I clearly remember him saying that “you can never tell if a Muslim is telling the truth.” I smiled, shook his hand, thanked him for the advice – but I secretly questioned what he said about Muslims and Islam.

    I soon found out firsthand that he was totally right – and the knowledge was able to keep me out of a lot of trouble…

    • infidel says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 11:33 am

      HEAR HEAR a trillion times mate…. Yes U can indeed NEVER say when these Koranimals are lying. There is a saying in India… Even if a Muslim is standing in hot boiling ghee (melted butter) and swears that he is saying the truth, U must not believe him. Another saying goes that if U wet Ur hands with oil and then stick it in a jar of black till and then withdraw the arm, the number of lies the Muslim says will be more than the number of black till sticking to Ur hands.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 8:10 pm

      Thanks, James.

  19. infidel says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 11:28 am

    Shameless pest of a lying Trojan Koranimal…. and this victim act is the same one that the Indian Muslims use too from time2time.

  20. Or Else! says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 11:53 am

    I’ll give Muslims credit for being victims–of their own mind-forged manacle of a supremacist ideology.

    It’s the software as engineered and FORCIBLY downloaded (or else!) by Muhammad & Company. It’s all found in the Qur’an, Hadith, Sira and all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence which formulate Shari’ah.

    Supremacist, totalitarian software. My way or the die-way.

  21. FYI says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    It cannot have been a joke.

    “there are no jokes in islam.There is no humor in islam.There is no fun in islam”
    Ayatollah Khomeini
    {Iran’s senior islamic killjoy clergyman}

    And there is also no Love in islam,no tolerance in islam,no beer in islam….

    islam itself however,its god ,”prophet” and its koran ……are definitely a sick Joke and in poor taste.

    I’ll tell you something that’s funny :Torres converted to a religion whose god and “prophet” say the reason a woman’s testimony is HALF that of a man is due to the “deficiency of woman’s mind”{Sahih Bukhari 2658}:so when a silly western woman is stupid enough to convert to islam …she kinda proves muhammed’s point….
    The smart thing to do would be to stay away from islam.Why would any woman convert to the most violently misogynistic cult and think that’s the intelligent think to do?

    Given that the majority of ungrateful muslimas,the Takfurna ,are going to hell anyway{Sahih muslim 241}:
    All that islamic virtue-signalling,hijab wearing for nothing!

    As the jihadist comedian said “Boom Boom” {..KaKa BOOM..}

  22. somehistory says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 3:03 pm

    “Nobody in Quebec should fear for her safety or her life because she expresses an opinion, a different point of view.”
    ****************

    This should go both ways….non moslims shouldn’t be threatened…and even killed…for expressing the opinion…it is a fact…that islam is evil, that islam is dangerous, that islam is valueless and has no virtue and islam’s “god” is a fake ‘god’ and is really satan the devil and his ‘fake prophet’ was a mass murderer, raper of children and a pathological liar and his followers who copy him commit terror acts, murders, rapes, and are liars like the devil.

    So, moslim woman, member of cair canada….put that in your scarf and sleep on it…while you contemplate your next terrorist threat to those of a different belief system.

    • elee says

      Apr 19, 2019 at 3:37 pm

      Kafir Satan, how dare you suggest the same rules for Muslims and kafirs? I’m 100% with you.

      • somehistory says

        Apr 19, 2019 at 4:03 pm

        elee
        🙂

  23. gravenimage says

    Apr 19, 2019 at 5:55 pm

    Quebec: Muslim politician who claimed Notre Dame fire was wrath of Allah apologizes and plays the victim
    ………………

    Predictable–Muslims sneer at suffering Infidels, then claim they are the actual victims.

    God, I hate Islam.

  24. Peter WF says

    Apr 20, 2019 at 12:20 am

    Somebody else’s fault again.

  25. Steven says

    Apr 20, 2019 at 7:11 am

    Eve Torres, does it mean Christchurch shooting is a God’s wrath and shooter is a real victim???

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